Re: Bad performance because of wrong characterset?

Thanks Yong. I doubt whether this can have such a significant effect, or it must be that due to some incompatability an index can't be used (or simply isn't even there). They have to trace the session, alas I'm not allowed to touch the system (other project, other budget blah blah)

At 06:54 17-11-03 -0800, you wrote:
>Carel-Jan,
>
>About two weeks ago, Faan DeSwardt <Faan_D1_at_VERIFONE.com> posted to the thread
>"Unicode: UTF-16 to UTF-8 conversion", saying UTF-8 is variable-length
>encoding
>and so is slower than the fixed-width UTF-16, and also US7ASCII. Maybe
>it's the
>same issue here comparing UTF-8 with WE8ISO8859P15. Faan can comment.
>
>Yong Huang

Regards, Carel-Jan

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